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Collaborations in Scaling Impact: J-PAL’s experience working with partners to generalize & adapt evidence to scale
Wed, March 13, 4:45 to 6:15pm, Hyatt Regency Miami, Floor: Third Level, Foster 2Proposal
Since its founding at MIT twenty years ago, education and skills building has been a major research focus of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In that time, J-PAL’s affiliated researchers have designed, administered, and completed over 280 randomized evaluations around the world in the education sector alone. J-PAL and its researchers have worked closely with NGOs, foundations, multilaterals, and governments to identify, test, and scale impactful, evidence-based interventions to empower and educate youth.
For example, over the past fifteen years, a series of randomized evaluations by J-PAL affiliated researchers have shown that Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), an approach developed by the Indian NGO Pratham, consistently improved learning outcomes when implemented well and has led to some of the largest learning gains among rigorously evaluated education programs. The iterative process of innovation and evaluation – in collaboration with J-PAL – helped Pratham to refine and adapt TaRL over time, which has now reached over 60 million children in India and Africa.
In recent years, J-PAL affiliated researchers have worked closely with BRAC, Educate!, and other organizations to evaluate the impact of their youth empowerment and skills-building programming.
In this panel, J-PAL’s Senior Evidence to Scale Manager will provide insights, connections, and context from this work and J-PAL’s two decades of work in evidence-based programming around the globe. J-PAL has worked and collaborated closely with NGOs and governments of all sizes to adapt, iterate, and scale programs reaching millions of young people. We will discuss how J-PAL considers evidence and its generalizability across different contexts, and the necessary ingredients and partnerships required to scale.